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For reference, Air Canada would need to give ~91% raise to get pilot pay back in line with where Air Canada pilots were in 2001. Post 9/11 the pilots took a terrible 'save the company from bankruptcy' deal, then during negotiations in 2012 the government forced a return to work deal with another terrible pilot contract.

For my single user instance, I can be charitable and say that it's running on hardware that I already had that is running regardless on spare otherwise unused resources with a already registered domain so the only cost is time spent setting it up. Or I could apply all the costs from the server Lemmy, then it would be about $1200 initially plus ~$10/mo per user.

This is 100% of the reason that I use the discord flatpak.

Sealed bag of cookies/chocolates/whatever as long as there are a decent number. Give it to whichever flight attendant is closest to your seat when you board. Most crews will have your back for the whole flight after that.

Yes, cracked Denuvo games actually run better because you aren't running ~~a virus~~ anti piracy software in the background. It runs at the kernel level and Crowdstrike is a pretty good case study on why that's bad.

My one and only reason is that I'm a turbo-nerd. No professional or even educational tech background at all.

Aside from their love of rotary knobs garmin is mostly fine. Their GA autopilots are amazing. If only everyone used Collins I would be very happy.

Absolutely. I like caf over decaf, but if decaf is what's available, then decaf is what's getting drunk.

That's common in other countries, but I've never heard of any impetus to do it in the US. A lot of airlines have some sort of cadet program, but none that actually put any serious money into developing new pilots. For what it's worth, the hurdles in becoming a pilot are a big part of why being a pilot in the US is so much better than the rest of the world, there's a lot of benefit in being your own professional and not having the company own you in a training contract.

Pilot.

Went to college and learned to fly at the college flight school. Going to college isn't totally necessary but having a degree is helpful, going to a college flight school is a terrible idea, local mom and pop flight schools are faster and cheaper for equally good training. The worst mistake I made in my career was flight instructing at the college flight school after I graduated. It was in a bad weather state so I couldn't get a lot of hours, I was supposedly paid $21/hr but the way it was structured I averaged out at around $7/hr with no benefits as a 1099.

I got hired by a small cargo op in 2019. They'd hire me about 6 months earlier than when I would have qualified for a regional airline. It seemed like a questionable move at the time, but $50k to fly a little tiny jet seemed like a fortune. In retrospect it was a really good move when all my flight instructor friends got furloughed by the regional airlines when covid started. Normally I'd say airlines are the right move, but timing is everything.

After 3 years flying cargo I was tired of having my circadian rhythm get obliterated every week and I got hired to fly for a big bizjet company. Fun job, went to lots of cool airports and flew some interesting people, new hire pay was great, top end pay was terrible and the benefits were awful.

I got hired by one of the big US airlines in the hiring rush from 2022-23. Pay is amazing, benefits are really good, the work is somewhat boring but easy, and I have a strong union. 10/10 big airlines are great, I'm not leaving unless the company goes under, which is always a possibility. Now the only problem is that Boeing can't seem to get their shit figured out so the industry has stopped hiring again because there aren't enough new planes even though demand is fine.

TLDR: timing is everything.

It's the best. I started using it because it let me pre download as many regions as I wanted unlike OSMand. Having android auto integration is nice even if it's very rough around the edges. Unfortunately google blocks android auto on non-play store versions because google.

Bonus points if the menu is at least half in another language